Rob Hughes (June 25) in response to my letter of the previous week, writes about creating an infrastructure with the new Barton & Finch precinct. I thought we already had one.

There is an established car park. There are 14 shop fronts, seven on each aisle. Two are occupied by Threshers, the off licence, and Courts, the chemist. Out of the other 12 Tesco (One Stop) already has two allowing them to take over the balance ten and stretching out into the open space at the centre, if they so wished.

We also have an established delivery route from Victoria Avenue to the back doors of the shops, though for some reason, delivery has been taking place in the early hours of the morning to the front of One Stop. That noise from 2.30am to 4.30am should not be allowed.

Above the shops, Barton & Finch can have their apartments to a three/four storey level as well as the whole pub area which could blend in sympathetically with Thameside with a tiled roof. Just go past and see the pub conversion in Terrace Road, Walton. Now that the roof has gone on, it seems to have integrated instead of sticking out like a sore thumb that the planned three-barrelled roof supermarket and metal roofed service yard will look like.

I would really like Mr Hughes’ surveyor friend to tell me why the above is not feasible. I may then be able to understand why I have to accept this ugliness that is to appear in front of me with its attendant noise levels.

Mr Hughes is certain that the present plan will not be “jeopardised by the minority of protestors”. Does he have some inside knowledge or is the planning application and its request for responses just a formality?